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  • Maria Sharapova on family

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    “My family and I built my whole career from scratch.” -Maria Sharapova

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  • Francesca Annis on family

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    “I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family… they are nearly always seen as victims.” -Francesca Annis

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  • Gordon Ramsay on family

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    “My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.” -Gordon Ramsay

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  • Peace Pilgrim on family

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    “No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.” -Peace Pilgrim

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  • Hayden Fry on family

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    “I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They’d never seen anything like it.” -Hayden Fry

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  • Tony Dorsett on family

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    “The Rooneys are very classy. They’re very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you’re part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don’t have a lot of rambunctious players running around.” -Tony Dorsett

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  • Tom Morello on family

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    “The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building.” -Tom Morello

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  • Emma Thompson on family

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    “I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, ‘She’s got her daughter she’s got her husband.’ Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else.” -Emma Thompson

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  • Novalis on family

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    “Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.” -Novalis

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  • Kamisese Mara on family

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    “The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” -Kamisese Mara

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  • Susannah York on family

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    “Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.” -Susannah York

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  • Barbara Mandrell on family

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    “It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can’t fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.” -Barbara Mandrell

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  • Billie Joe Armstrong on family

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    “In every song I write, whether it’s a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.” -Billie Joe Armstrong

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  • Henry Louis Gates on family

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    “So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… we’re adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that’s the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.” -Henry Louis Gates

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  • Joan Jett on family

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    “You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.” -Joan Jett

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  • Sting on family

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    “I come from a family of losers, and I’ve rejected my family as something I don’t want to be like.” -Sting

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  • H. Rap Brown on family

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    “The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”

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  • Muhammad Yunus on family

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    “Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.” -Muhammad Yunus

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  • Ang Lee on family

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    “Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn’t making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.” -Ang Lee

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  • Paul Lynde on family

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    “I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.” -Paul Lynde

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  • Kathy Ireland on family

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    “I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It’s my faith and my family, and then the business.” -Kathy Ireland

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  • Suze Orman on family

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    “The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don’t have or that you can’t really spare.” -Suze Orman

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  • Jessica Savitch on family

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    “Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.” -Jessica Savitch

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  • Rick Perry on family

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    “I’m worried about that man or woman sitting around – the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.” -Rick Perry

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  • Antonin Scalia on family

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    “In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.” -Antonin Scalia

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